Mumford and Sons

.........

Towers of London?

"These bands taught us to open our hearts" IDK what to say about this really. It's kind of stunned me into silence.

"...and with our families" did that for me

Ah, the emeby.

Try again: The Enemy.

There was some interview where to show their distinct/exclusive tastes, they said that the only band they *all* liked was Oasis.

Which is a good way of saying the exact opposite to what they intended...

The Others
The Rakes
The Cribs

Oasis???? taught them to open their hearts? They know their heart is not their gob, right?

I dislike Babyshambles for reasons other than their music - they harrdly ever play anyway.
Towers of London: Donny Tourette is a twunt but has a tiny bit of self awareness and knowledge that his band's situation is ridiculous and hopeless.

Pash/Tom, I read that as "see, we told our parents that although they might think we're crap and we should concentrate on our school work etc, we played them Oasis records and said that we could do that, and they said that we might be onto something"

My shit rural American town has Ke$ha playing a coupla hours away in a few weeks so the local top 40 station is playing her nonstop & last night I was exasperated at the "desperate clubbing" themes of every song but having read that blurb on The Enemy I take back everything I said Ke$ha, you are loved again.

Also SNORE PATROL you bunch of fucking amateurs.

The Cribs had a few moments and I feel like Towers of London were stupid, harmless fun and not taking themselves very seriously so they can't be lumped in with gobshites like Mumford and Razorlight.

You know I already had some mass pity for all you folks thanks to Cameron, but this is now approaching catharsis.

But I am American so my exposure to both was limited.

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Joe lean and jing and a jang and a jong...

Had the good grace to fall off the pavement rather than from a height.

Oh god forgot about them.

Biffy Clyro

Right, they suck

I would disqualify Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong due to them being so shit no one would even release their album. They were sort of the Gay Dad tipping point where the music industry realised they were just taking the piss now.

The Cooper Temple Clause on the other hand.

A Hundred Reasons why Hundred Reasons are shite

^^^ Classic ILM.

just type 'v festival 2007' into yr favourite search engine for inspiration

shittest uk band of 00s/10s poll = "Festval" bands poll

There's still a roadsign in Reading that has "home of the Cooper Temple Clause" 'grafitti'd' onto it, (i.e. it almost looks official)

We will need to run this poll 50 times so they all have a chance of winning.

not sure if gorillaz belong on this poll....even if u h8 them they're still pretty different to the landfill mnstrm

yeah i agree

Absolutement. Think we shd have restrictions on number of chords deployed plus shitness of rhythm section.

Wd also save Lawrence and the Machine for a different poll for the same reason.

Should the Wombats be here? Or a little too late? The inheritors of the tradition.

In a perfect world we'd be able to vote for Kasabian as one Platonic ideal of twattery and Scatting for Girls as the other.

Also in a perfect world The Sex is on Fires and the Killers wd belong in this list.

xpost -- The Anacrapsis

Kasabian's pretension make them non-platonic imo: if it's a fault, it's an unusual fault in lummox rock. (but obvs no argument that they must be in the poll)

Nah, Kasabian are part of the noble tradition of Primal Scream-esque would-be space rockers were pretension = "have read a big word in a comic". It doesn't reach to they music or anything.

Talking of Coventry, there's The Enemy

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ahh that's who I meant - The Twang are Brummies iirc

Will admit to liking "We'll Live and Die in These Towns" but I am a sucker for a horn tbh

can we add dirty pretty things?

also: the last shadow puppets

the fratellis

Don't think foreigners shd be allowed to vote in case they're misled by the veneer of glamour hanging over exotic Britishes locations like Cov and Chorley.

Dearest Dog Latin: 'never had a girlfriend have you?'

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so icey

fratellis is a v gd call

already on the list.

I'd argue against the Wobmats. They put all their good/decent stuff on album 1, and have spent at least 4 years trying to write new stuff!

They didn't have any good stuff in the first place. The Wombats totally belong here.

'chelsea dagger' has probably the most obnoxious hook of all time

still going SFG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlKqbYwZVbo

Think Florence & The Machine have a bit too much presence and star quality and not enough stodginess to qualify for this. I vote for replacing them with The Subways.

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NV, agreed on Kasabian in the Primal Scream tradition (they're even into doltish revolutionary gestures, think they have a Corsican liberation thing?), just think that makes them a bit odd in the landfill indie world.

1-10 of about 81 results for "Primark Scream".

No the funny thing about Kasabian is that they constantly bang on about being into Can and Detroit techno and whatever but they're still firmly in the landfill. Idiocy of fans is a key factor here.